Modeling reductions in freeway capacity due to incidents in microscopic simulation models

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1999, 2007, Pages 62-68

  Hadi, Mohammed ^a   Sinha, Prasoon ^b   Wang, Amy ^c  

^a The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b PBS and J   (United States)

^c FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CALIBRATION PARAMETERS; MICROSCOPIC SIMULATION MODELSS; SIMULATION PROGRAMS;

HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 38849099049     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1999-07     Document Type: Article

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